GROWING OUR Connections and Impact
2019 Millicom Annual Report Our Purpose: To build the digital highways that connect people, improve lives and develop our communities.
Growing Our Connections and Impact Millicom drives its business success through connections that matter. Connections that open doors to knowledge, enable people to thrive in the digital economy and help businesses realize financial opportunities that would otherwise go untapped. We continually pursue new ways to extend the reach and impact of our digital highways through innovations that fuel productive, sustainable growth in the markets where we operate.
As we create vital connectivity through our fixed and mobile networks, we also lead responsibly to foster an environment where our employees, customers and communities can prosper and reach their full potential. We strive to lead by example, particularly in ethical business practices and responsiveness to the needs of all people in our communities.
We are headquartered in Luxembourg, with a U.S. corporate office in Miami. Through our Tigo and Tigo BusinessTM brands, we provide a wide range of digital services, including high-speed data, cable TV, voice and SMS, Mobile Financial Services, and business solutions. We serve customers in nine Latin American markets— Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay—as well as in Tanzania.
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About This Report Our fourth integrated annual report combines our corporate responsibility (CR) and finan- cial reports to provide all our stakeholders with a clear and comprehensive overview of SPOTLIGHTS IN our business and activities in 2019. The report conveys our progress against our business strategy and identifies and quantifies the ways in which our practices and programs THIS REPORT under our CR Framework deliver business value, transform communities, and protect our We seek to make a environment as contemplated under the UN Sustainable Development Goals. positive difference in the Our CR Framework and Five-Year CR plan, against which we are reporting this year, were built on our 2018 Materiality Assessment and ongoing dialogue with internal and lives of individuals, the external stakeholders. We will continue to seek feedback from investors, customers, success of businesses, employees and community leaders to inform about our corporate responsibility efforts. and the progress of [Click here] to find out more about our CR reporting approach. communities through our Note: Our Latin America (Latam) segment includes our Honduras and Guatemala joint actions as a company. ventures as if they were fully consolidated, as this reflects the way our management The impact of our work reviews and uses internally reported information to make decisions about operating matters. We also report in this way to provide increased transparency to investors on throughout 2019 can be those operations. Unless otherwise noted, the data in this report includes the opera- seen in various feature tions of Cable Onda and Telefónica Central America assets in Panama and Nicaragua stories bearing a that Millicom acquired in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Spotlight icon that appears throughout the pages that follow. They What’s Inside This Report demonstrate how our Overview Governance 22,000-plus employees 02 Chairman’s Message 67 Chairman’s report help put Millicom’s 03 Chief Executive Officer’s message 68 Corporate governance framework strategy, purpose and 05 Our Year in Numbers 69 Shareholders and shareholders’ 06 Our Market Leadership meeting responsible leadership 71 Board of Directors and Managing Our Business into action. Board committees 09 Our Market Outlook 74 Board profile–skills and experience 10 Our Financial Performance 77 Board program 15 Supporting Our People 80 Board committees 22 Our Business Strategy and 80 I. Audit Committee Performance 83 II. Compliance and Business 28 Enterprise Risk Management Conduct Committee 33 Compliance and Business Ethics 85 III. Compensation Committee: Fulfilling Our Corporate Responsibility Remuneration Report 36 Our CR Framework 92 Millicom CEO and Executive Team 38 CR Fundamentals 99 Directors’ Financial and 39 Environment Operating Report 41 Human Rights 100 Management responsibility 42 Ethics statement 43 Inclusion Disclaimers 43 Supply Chain 102 Forward looking statements 44 Our Responsible Leadership in Action 103 Non IFRS definitions 45 Protecting Children 104 Non IFRS reconciliations 47 Empowering Women 49 Connecting Communities Auditors’ Reports and Financial Statement 50 CR Performance Tables 116 Independent Auditor’s Report 64 Assurance Letter 120 Consolidated Financial Statements 127 Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
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Chairman’s Message At the end of 2019, I completed my first year as Chair of Millicom’s Board. I am more impressed than ever with how our digital highways help communities overcome obstacles to access the digital world and enable technological breakthroughs. We are making connections that matter and doing it in the right way.
In 2019, Millicom continued straight and true on a path of delivering on our value proposition and business strategy. Steadfast execution against our strategic pil- lars resulted in the company delivering key operational targets and achieving a solid financial performance, despite periods of weaker economic activity and political uncertainty in parts of Latin America. Our unprecedented investments to extend the reach of Millicom’s cable and 4G network across nine countries further strengthened our position as the leading telecommunications provider in these markets. Along with integrat- ing the businesses in Central America from acquired operations from Telefonica and Cable Onda in Panama, we also finalized the sale of Tigo operations in Chad as part of our strategic focus on Latam. As always, our Governance structure and Business Ethics and Compliance programs were key to navigating some of the risks inherent to operating in emerging markets. Doing business in the right way is a fundamental driver embodied in our new “Sangre Tigo” framework that sets the tone from the top and cascading down through the whole organization. We believe our commitment to ethics and compliance builds strength and success for our com- pany, and positions Tigo as a force for positive change in the countries and communities we serve. The listing of Millicom’s common shares in the U.S. in NASDAQ Stock Market in January 2019 has opened greater opportunities to reach potential investors and provided additional support for our growth strategy. We paid special attention this year to enhancing controls and policies in our first year of compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This was also a transformational year of progress in our efforts to bring lasting social, environmental and eco- nomic value to the people and communities we serve. I am proud of how we are building our market leadership on a sound strategy that intertwines Millicom’s Corporate Responsibility framework with our business objectives. For us, doing good business and doing what’s right are two sides of the same coin. Ultimately, it’s our people who bring our ambitious vision to life. We recognize the importance of ensuring that Millicom is a place where employees feel safe, protected and supported in ways that enable them to do well, and enhance their lives and the lives of those around them. I am pleased that we took steps in 2019 to create a more robust Diversity and Inclusion strategy. 2019 ended with another important milestone in our history as the company’s largest long term shareholder, Kinnevik AB, exited as a shareholder through a distribution of its entire 37% stake in Millicom. On behalf of the Board, I want to extend our gratitude for the valuable role Kinnevik has played in our company’s story. Now begins an exciting new chapter for Millicom as a business 100% owned by public shareholders who can trade TIGO on both the U.S. and Stockholm NASDAQ exchanges. In my first year as Chairman, I deeply appreciated the ways that our newest Board members—Pernille Erenbjerg, Mercedes Johnson and Jim Thompson—stepped into their responsibilities with poise and enthusiasm. We are for- tunate to gain their deep business experience and regional knowledge. I also want to recognize the contributions made by Tom Boardman, Anders Jensen and Roger Sole Rafols, who ended their Board service in 2019. Lastly, I thank the Executive Team for executing our business strategy so capably. Their commitment made a tre- mendous impact on our performance in 2019 and positioned us for even greater success in 2020 and beyond. It is my pleasure to share our Annual Report with you. I hope you find this summary of our business and Corporate Responsibility achievements to be as exciting and inspiring as I have.
José Antonio Ríos García Chairman of the Board of Directors
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Chief Executive Officer’s Message 2019 was a pivotal year for our company, with several game-changing milestones. Our collaborative approach to executing our business and corporate responsibility strategies provided results that truly benefited our share- holders, our customers, our employees and the communities of the countries we serve.
We reinforced our commitment to Central America with an unparal- leled inorganic investment of more than $3 billion over the last 18 months, adding Cable Onda in Panama and Telefónica’s operations in Nicaragua, Panama and Costa Rica1 to our existing operations. These transactions enhanced our footprint and advanced our goal to rede- “We have an obligation to ploy capital from under-performing to higher-performing regions. As a result, we significantly enhanced Tigo’s mobile and fixed conver- ensure the technology we gence capabilities in 2019. Tigo is now the No. 1 or No. 2 provider of provide is being used mobile, broadband internet and pay TV services in eight out of our nine Latam markets. responsibly and has the best Our business strategy—in place since 2016—is working, and the possible outcome for the results can be seen in our revenue growth over the past year. Revenue for 2019 increased 9.9% to $4,336 million, and net profit for the year communities we serve.” attributable to shareholders improved to $149 million, or $1.48 per share. We are confident that by executing our strategy, we will con- tinue to create long-term value for shareholders. “ Our customers benefited from our investments last year as well. We added a record number of customers to our 4G network, giving them faster, more reliable mobile internet access. We capitalized on our enhanced infrastructure capabilities to expand our business-to-busi- ness services, gaining 4,000 new customers in the past year. In 2019, we also advanced our goal to become a “content supermarket” for our Latam customers, creating strategic partnerships with Google, Amazon and others to deliver the richest selection of consumer expe- riences and business solutions. These enhanced offerings and our commitment to “give 1,000% to our customers” resulted in a tangible uptick in the Net Promoter Score metrics we use to measure customer satisfaction. Ultimately, our success as a company ties back to our purpose and the transformational benefits that individuals and communities gain from being connected and participating in the digital lifestyle. Last year, we catapulted our long-standing corporate responsibility efforts to a new level as we put into action our updated and more cohesive Corporate Responsibility Framework, including measurable targets. The refined framework includes five Corporate Responsibility Fundamentals that guide us in how we manage our business, as well as our Responsible Leadership in Action initiatives to empower women, protect children, and connect communities. (More details can be found on pages 34-63 of this year’s report.) This also highlights our ongoing commit- ment to the United Nations Global Compact.
1 Reflects our pending acquisition of Telefonica Costa Rica.
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Highlights of our CR progress in 2019 clearly demonstrate how we cre- ate shared value for our multiple stakeholders: » Promoting safe and productive Internet use among youth. Through our Conectate Segur@ program, we provided thousands of children, parents, teachers and caregivers with practical lessons on how to avoid potential dangers online so they can more fully enjoy the benefits of technology. » Narrowing the digital gender divide. Through our Conectadas program, we moved closer to our goal of training 400,000 women on digital tools and entrepreneurial skills by 2023, empowering them to support their families and contribute to their communities’ economic vitality. » Issuing our first Sustainability Bond. Valued at approximately $211 million, our inaugural Sustainability Bond is helping us reduce our climate footprint and promote greater digital and financial inclusion in emerging markets. The enthusiastic response from investors for this bond underscores how our company can be a pow- erful vehicle for channeling funds from capital markets in Sweden, the United States, and elsewhere to developing countries in Latin America. » Sharing the talent of our people. We created opportunities for hundreds of Tigo employees to volunteer in our Conectate Segur@ and Conectadas digital inclusion programs, allowing our employees CEO Mauricio Ramos during the to engage directly with communities to create positive changes in public announcement of Millicom’s acquisition of their lives through technology, which in turn, create positive rewards Telefonica in Panama for our employees. In our business operations and CR programs alike, our talented and committed employees are the lifeblood that propels us forward with great momentum. We call this powerful force our “Sangre Tigo.” In 2019, we dedicated ourselves to defining the essence of Sangre Tigo—those attitudes, behaviors and beliefs that our people bring to work—to ensure our company remains a great place to work as we grow. Our more than 22,000 employees now have a clearer sense of our purpose and are channeling their energy to have a positive impact for all our stakeholders. I want to thank our Board, our community partners and our employ- ees for their invaluable role in fulfilling our purpose in 2019. As you’ll see on the pages that follow, our attention to growing our connec- tions and impact, and the results that accrued to all our strategic stakeholders last year give us many reasons to feel optimistic about 2020. We know there are challenges ahead, and we look forward to tackling them with enthusiasm, with Sangre Tigo.
Mauricio Ramos Chief Executive Officer
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Financial and Operational Highlights
FINANCIAL RESULTS HOME Revenue HFC Homes Passed ($m) (m)
2017 $3,936 2017 8.4 + % +8.5% 2018 9.9 2018 $3,946 Year-on-year 10.6 Year-on-year growth growth 2019 $4,336 2019 11.5
Gross Profit HFC Customer Relationships ($m) (m)
2017 $2,767 2017 2.3 + % +11.3% 2018 10.8 2018 $2,829 Year-on-year 3.1 Year-on-year growth growth 2019 $3,135 2019 3.5
MOBILE 4G customers (m) 22K+ 2017 7.2 + % 2018 47 10.5 Year-on-year growth Full-time employees and 2019 15.4 approximately 30,000 contractors
Indicator reflects Latam segment. 11.6K • Points of presence • 4G Customers • HFC Homes Passed • HFC Customer Relationships Points of presence
Corporate Responsibility Highlights
200 89% 1,400+ 207K
Key Staff trained on Strategic suppliers who Connected Women who Human Rights signed the Supplier schools participated in our Code of Conduct digital inclusion and training programs
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Honduras Mobile #1 BBI #1 Pay TV #2
Guatemala Nicaragua Mobile #1 Mobile #1 1 BBI #2 BBI #2 El Salvador Panama Pay TV #1 Mobile #2 Pay TV #2 Mobile #1 BBI #2 BBI #1 Pay TV #2 Pay TV #1 Costa Rica1 Mobile #2 BBI #3 Pay TV #1
Colombia Mobile #3 BBI #2 Pay TV #2 Consolidating our leadership position in Latam through diligent execution of our business strategy.
Strengthening our leadership position in Latam through diligent Bolivia Mobile #2 execution of our business strategy BBI #1 Pay TV #1 Our long-term focus on converging Tigo’s fixed and mobile services throughout Latin America continues to drive solid business result. Millicom’s gains in recent years from both organically increasing our market share and investing in key acquisitions to further consolidate our regional footprint. Paraguay Mobile #1 As a result of our acquisitions of Cable Onda, the leading cable operator in Panama, BBI #1 Pay TV #1 and of Telefonica’s telecom operations in Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Tigo is reshaping the industry landscape in Central America. These new assets allowed us to add Panama to our portfolio of countries served and accelerated our fixed-mobile convergence strategy in the region. Most importantly, we can provide customers in these markets with the high quality fixed and mobile services they expect. Our significant investments demonstrate Tigo’s commitment to expanding digital highways and advancing economic prosperity in Latam for years to come.
1 Reflects our pending acquisition of Telefonica Costa Rica, and America Movil’s pending acquisition in El Salvador.
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A Single Integrated Company By executing on our business strategy, Tigo is now the only convergent operator in each of its 9 Latin American markets.1
OUR BUSINESS STRATEGY Monetizing Mobile Data A sound mobile data monetization strategy will continue to translate incremental growth into additional revenue through: » Expansion of our 4G/LTE network » Transition to a postpaid subscription revenue model » Products and services that stimulate data usage Building Cable Demand for high-speed data from both the business sector and individual customers drives revenue growth. To meet this demand, we are: » Accelerating the expansion of our hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network » Targeting acquisitions that complement our organic buildout » Adding content and services to drive further growth in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU). Accelerating Convergence The deployment of IT solutions to efficiently market and support convergent solu- tions will help us: » Differentiate ourselves in the marketplace » Generate new revenue streams » Increase customer satisfaction and loyalty » Reduce customer churn and costs » Prepare for future network deployments such as 5G. Driving B2B Growth To accelerate growth among multinational corporations, large local companies and small and medium size businesses (SMBs), we have made B2B fundamental to our strategy by: » Differentiating the Tigo Business brand through excellent service and frontline execution » Selectively evolving our portfolio into Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-managed services. » Investing in state-of-the-art infrastructure, including tier 3 datacenters » Developing and supporting sales and marketing capabilities to penetrate and serve new customers. Promoting a Digital Experience Increased digitization of our processes and operations continue to benefit our com- pany and customers as we: » Provide superior digital journeys for our customers that will ensure we become or Tigo Sports Tigo Music remainTigo Money the operator of choice; » Create new tools and an enhanced operational model so our teams can do their work more efficiently; and » Offer next generation user-experience platforms that seamlessly integrate content across linear and on-demand channels. Tigo ONE tv Mi Tigo Tigo Shop Tigo Sports Tigo Music Tigo Money
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1 Reflects our pending acquisition of Telefonica Costa Rica.
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Managing Our Business
Millicom’s performance reflects the interconnected work of teams across many disciplines. We stay on track to excel by diligently studying and monitoring our markets, continually supporting and developing our human capital and honing and measuring our progress against our business strategy. Our continued success also hinges on how we mitigate risks and optimize opportunities in our organization, meet our rigorous ethical and compliance standards, and govern our company. This section of our Annual Report lays out how all those components contribute to our success.
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Our Market Outlook We take a long-term view and follow a rigorous and disciplined approach to capital allocation as we expand the company’s digital infrastructure throughout Latin America. The assets that we have built over the past several years, together with our recent cable and mobile acquisitions in Central America, have enabled us to provide new services and to add customers and increase usage of our network in markets where a growing middle class is devoting a larger share of its disposal income to communication and information services. Our strategy to further consolidate Tigo operations in Latam holds some degree of planned risk, but we see significant potential growth ahead for this region. In its Latin America Economic Outlook forecast from October 2019, Oxford Economics predicted several encouraging trends in many of the countries we serve. Among them: » Steady GDP growth for much of the region » Reduced volatility in exchange rates for Latam as a whole, with a few exceptions » 6.6% annual growth in the number of households with an average income of more than $20,000 over the next decade—from about 8 million in 2018 to roughly 15 million by 2028 We are positioning Tigo to both profit from and contribute to the region’s upward momentum. As our customer base and portfolio offerings grow, we bring more capital and a deeper well of expertise to emerging markets. In turn, the people and businesses that use our digital highways to improve their economic stature bring follow-on benefits—such as added disposable income, new jobs and greater civic involvement—to their communities. In these and many other respects, our strong competitive position in Latam not only benefits Millicom shareholders but also our customers, employees and communities. Managing our business is truly inseparable from advancing economic development and social progress in the countries where we operate.
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Chief Financial Officer’s Message We continued to focus on capturing the broadband opportunity in our Latin America markets during 2019, as we saw positive results in both mobile and cable during the year. Additionally, we completed our footprint in Central America, acquiring and integrating mobile operations in Nicaragua and Panama. We continued to execute on our capital allocation strategy, selling Chad and supporting Jumia and Helios Towers with their successful stock exchange listings.
Group highlights1 Revenue for the year ended December 31, 2019 increased 9.9% to $4,336 million, as revenue from acquisitions more than offset the impact of weaker foreign currencies. Operating income for the year declined 10.1% to $575 million, as we recognized other operating losses primarily due to a non-cash loss on disposal of equity investments and fair value adjustments. Operating expenses decreased 0.8%, while depreciation and amortization increased 37.2% resulting from newly acquired operations, and the impact of IFRS 16 adoption. The share of net profit in our joint ventures in Guatemala and Honduras increased 16.0%, due to positive results in these operations during 2019. Net interest expense increased 57.1% to $544 million, mainly due to an increase in our gross debt during the year resulting from acquisitions, and the impact of IFRS 16. In order to finance our acquisitions in Central America, we were active in the debt capital markets in 2019, issuing our first bond in Panama and our first Sustainability Bond in Stockholm. Following the acquisitions of mobile assets in Central America, our leverage ended 2019 at 3.19x on a proforma proportionate net debt-to-EBITDA basis. Our leverage ratio is currently above our long-term target of 2.0x, primarily due to the acquisitions, but we expect that future EBITDA growth and cash generation will allow us to return to our target leverage ratio in the medium term.2 Income from other non-operating items increased by $266 million to $227 million during the year, due to an increase in value in our equity investment in Helios Towers, offset by a decrease in value in our equity investment in Jumia as well as foreign exchange losses during the year. Tax expense increased 7.2% to $120 million, due to the net movement between lower profitability in Latin America resulting in a lower income tax charge, offset by the inclusion of acquisitions and a higher net deferred tax expense during the year. As a result of the above factors, net profit for the year atributable to shareholders was $149 million, or $1.48 per share. For more extensive details on Millicom’s financial performance, please refer to pages 118-213.
Tim Pennington Chief Financial Officer
1 Group highlights are presented on an IFRS basis and therefore do not consolidate the results from our Guatemala and Honduras joint ventures. 2 This paragraph includes Non-IFRS measures. Please refer to the non-IFRS disclosures in this annual report for a description and for a reconciliation of non-IFRS measures.
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This section provides a summary of the financial and operating performance of our Latin America and Africa segments through selected performance indicators1 that are based on our management reporting, presenting Guatemala and Honduras joint ventures as if fully consolidated in the Latin America segment. Our 2019 Financial Performance in Latin America 2019 was a challenging macroeconomic year for some of our markets. Paraguay, for example, experienced negative GDP growth during the first half of the year due to volatility in neighboring economies and to fluctuations in commodity prices which impacted the agricultural sector. Meanwhile, Bolivia and Nicaragua were impacted by periods of widespread political protests and social unrest, which dampened economic activity. In Panama, economic growth slowed during the first half of the year. The slower macroeconomic growth environment, combined with increased competition in some markets, meant that our Latin American organic service revenue growth was 2.2% in 2019 representing a slowdown compared to 4.3% growth in 2018. EBITDA growth was 2.1% (2018: 3.5%) on an organic basis during the year. However, OCF (this is EBITDA minus Capex) growth was robust and rose 8.3% (2018: 3.2%), demonstrating our capability to deliver strong cash flow growth even under challenging market conditions. In our Mobile business, which accounts for 59% of Latam service revenue (2018: 63%), we increased our footprint by adding operations in Nicaragua and Panama, which added 5.2 million mobile users to our network. Aided by these acquisitions, our customer base increased to 39.8 million customers and our 4G customers increased to 15.4 million, and we continued to improve our penetration rates, with 4G reaching 39% of our mobile customers at the end of 2019, an improvement from the 31% penetration rate at the end of 2018. Mobile service revenue increased 1.4% year-over-year from 2019 (2018: -2.1%) as revenue from acquisitions more than offset the impact of weaker currencies and a slight decline in our organic growth during the period. In our Cable and other fixed business, which generates about 40% of our Latin American service revenue (2018: 36%), we expanded our HFC network during 2019 to cover an additional 901,000 homes, bringing the total to 11.5 million at year-end 2019 (2018: 10.6 million). We added 351,000 net HFC customer relationships, ending the year with 3.5 million, a penetration rate of 30% (2018: 29%). Revenue in our Cable business increased 21.5% year-on-year (2018: 3.1%) fueled by the acquisition of Cable Onda, as well as robust organic growth in most markets, which more than offset the drag from weaker currencies. By country, organic service revenue growth was positive in seven of our nine markets, while EBITDA grew in Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala and Honduras. Our Colombia business showed improvement in both the mobile and home businesses; Guatemala and Honduras performed strongly, as our market-leading mobile businesses continued to drive success in these countries. Results in Bolivia and Paraguay were afected by competition as well as by the macroeconomic and political situations, respectively. Despite social unrest, our Bolivia home business was one of our strongest performers during the year. A slowing economy also afected our Panama operations, but our focus on synergies during the integration resulted in strong EBITDA, and cash flow growth during the year. Capex in Latin America was $1 billion in 2019, as we continued to invest to support the ongoing expansion of both our mobile and fixed networks in the region. By year-end, our 4G networks covered approximately 69% of the population of our markets, which now include Nicaragua and Panama. Strong 4G mobile network coverage and performance allowed us to allocate a majority of our capex toward our cable network expansion in 2019, consistent with recent years. Customer premise equipment deployed to support the growth of our Cable customer base accounted for more than 30% of our total capex in the region, indicating that a significant portion of our capex is success-driven and variable in nature, which helps to reduce volatility in cash flow generation.
Latam ($m) 1% 10% 13% Other Paraguay Other $60m Service revenue 6% Organic growth +2.2% El Salvador 37% Cable and $5,514 26% Revenue by other fixed Revenue by Colombia country $2,197m 2 business EBITDA 24% 55% Organic growth +2.1% Guatemala Mobile 7% $3,258m $2,443 10% Equipment Honduras 11% Sales Revenue Bolivia $449m
1 Non-IFRS measure. Please refer to the non-IFRS disclosures in this annual report for a description and for a reconciliation of non-IFRS measures. 2 Our Latin America (Latam) segment includes our Guatemala and Honduras joint ventures as if they were fully consolidated. Service revenue, EBITDA, OCF, CAPEX and organic growth are non-IFRS measures. Please refer to page 103 for description of non-IFRS measures
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Service revenue* $m Colombia Others CABLE AND OTHER MOBILE (’000) FIXED (’000) Organic growth +2.8% $42m Mobile 4G smartphone $577m Home customer data users 2019 $1,432 relationships1 3,570 2018 $1,553 1,710 As of year end 2019 As of year end 2019 EBITDA $m Organic growth +3.0% Service 870 36 Net additions 2019 $510 Cable and Revenue Net additions other fixed 2018 $494 $813m +32.2% +2.1% YOY Growth YOY Growth EBITDA margin** % *Organic growth represents year-on year-growth excluding 2019* 33.3% the impact of changes in FX rates, perimeter, and accounting. 2018 **Excluding the benefit of IFRS 16, 2019 EBITDA 29.7% margin would have been 29.8%.
CABLE AND OTHER MOBILE (’000) Service revenue* $m Bolivia Others Organic growth +4.5% $2m FIXED (’000) 4G smartphone Home customer data users 2019 $624 Cable and relationships1 other fixed 2,171 2018 $597 $205.1m 511 As of year end 2019 As of year end 2019 EBITDA $m Organic growth +6.3% Service 359 122 Net additions 2019 $257 Revenue Net additions +19.8% 2018 $232 +31.3% YOY Growth YOY Growth EBITDA margin**% *Organic growth represents year-on year-growth excluding 2019 40.2% Mobile the impact of changes in FX rates, perimeter, and accounting. $416.4m 2018 **Excluding the benefit of IFRS 16, 2019 EBITDA 37.8% margin would have been 38.5%.
$m Paraguay Others CABLE AND OTHER MOBILE (’000) Service revenue* $1.3m FIXED (’000) 4G smartphone Organic growth –1.2% Home customer 2019 $575 1 data users Cable and relationships 2018 $632 other fixed 437 1,520 $210m As of year end 2019 As of year end 2019 EBITDA $m Organic growth –5.6% Service 30 436 Net additions 2019 Revenue Net additions $294 +7.5% +40.2% 2018 $332 YOY Growth YOY Growth EBITDA margin**% *Organic growth represents year-on year-growth excluding Mobile 2019 48.2% the impact of changes in FX rates, perimeter, and accounting. $363m 2018 **Excluding the benefit of IFRS 16, 2019 EBITDA 48.8% margin would have been 47.2%.
$m Guatemala Others CABLE AND OTHER MOBILE (’000) Service revenue* $3m FIXED (’000) 4G smartphone Organic growth +5.3% Cable and Home customer data users 2019 $1,234 other fixed relationships1 $201.4m 3,894 2018 $1,200 519 As of year end 2019 As of year end 2019 EBITDA $m Organic growth +4.7% Service 906 34 Net additions 2019 $748 Revenue Net additions +30.3% 2018 $689 +7.1% YOY Growth YOY Growth EBITDA margin** % *Organic growth represents year-on year-growth excluding 2019 52.2% the impact of changes in FX rates, perimeter, and accounting. Mobile 2018 **Excluding the benefit of IFRS 16, 2019 EBITDA 50.2% $1,029.7m margin would have been 49.1%.
1 Includes HFC, DTH, Copper and other technologies.
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CABLE AND OTHER MOBILE (’000) Service revenue* $m Honduras Others FIXED (’000) Organic growth +1.7% Cable and $6m 4G smartphone other fixed Home customer data users 2019 $551 relationships1 $92m 1,747 2018 $555 176 As of year end 2019 As of year end 2019 EBITDA $m Organic growth +0.5% Service 469 11 Net additions 2019 $280 Revenue Net additions +36.7% 2018 $268 +6.9% YOY Growth YOY Growth EBITDA margin** % *Organic growth represents year-on year-growth excluding 2019 47.1% the impact of changes in FX rates, perimeter, and accounting. Mobile 2018 45.8% $452.4m **Excluding the benefit of IFRS 16, 2019 EBITDA margin would have been 44.4%.
Panama CABLE AND OTHER MOBILE (’000) Service revenue* $m Others FIXED (’000) Organic growth +0.4% $5m Mobile 4G smartphone $70.4m Home customer data users 2019 $468 relationships1 787 2018 $17 437 As of year end 2019 As of year end 2019 EBITDA $m –23,378 68 Organic growth +9.1% Service 23 Net additions Net additions 2019 $223 Revenue Net additions –5% 2018 $4 N/A YOY Growth -5.1% YOY Growth YOY Growth* EBITDA margin**% *Organic growth represents year-on year-growth excluding *Net adds since acquisitions Cable and 2019 46.9% other fixed the impact of changes in FX rates, perimeter, and accounting. $392.7m **Excluding the benefit of IFRS 16, 2019 EBITDA 2018 24% margin would have been 44.3%.
CABLE AND OTHER MOBILE (’000) Service revenue* $m El Salvador Others FIXED (’000) Organic growth –6.2% $2m 4G smartphone Home customer data users 2019 $349 Cable and relationships1 other fixed 924 2018 $371 $125.2m 274 As of year end 2019 As of year end 2019 EBITDA $m Organic growth –4.4% Service 1 299 Net additions 2019 $140 Revenue Net additions +47.8% 2018 $133 +0.4% YOY Growth YOY Growth EBITDA margin**% *Organic growth represents year-on year-growth excluding 2019 36.2% Mobile the impact of changes in FX rates, perimeter, and accounting. $221m 2018 **Excluding the benefit of IFRS 16, 2019 EBITDA 32.9% margin would have been 33.0%.
Costa Rica CABLE AND OTHER Cable and FIXED (’000) other fixed Home customer $151m relationships1 256 As of year end 2019 Service Revenue
1 Includes HFC, DTH, Copper and other technologies.
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CABLE AND OTHER MOBILE (’000(’000) ) ServiceService revenue revenue $m $m NicaraguaNicaragua OthersOthers CABLE AND OTHER MOBILE OrganicOrganic growth growth 9% 9% $0m$0m FIXEDFIXED (’000) (’000) 4G4G smartphone smartphone CableCable and and HomeHome customer customer datadata user userss 20201919 $151$151 otherother fixed fixed relationshipsrelationships11 $20.7$20.7mm 785785 20201818 $1$144 1313 AsAs of of year year end end 2019 2019 AsAs of of year year end end 201 20199 EBITDEBITDAA $m $m ServiceService OrganicOrganic growth growth –98% –98% RevenueRevenue 20201919 $68$68 20201818 $4$4
EBITDAEBITDA margin margin % % MobileMobile 20201919 $130m$130m 43%43% 20201818 28%28%
Our 2019 Financial Performance in Africa During 2019 we continued to execute our strategy to improve our financial performance and the returns we generate on the capital we have invested in the region. This includes selling lower performing businesses in our Africa segment, where our return on capital has historically been less than in our Latin America segment. In line with this strategy, we successfully divested our operation in Chad in 2019. In addition, we supported Jumia and Helios Towers Africa, two companies in which Millicom holds minority interests, as they completed IPOs and listed their shares on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, respectively. Following the disposal of Chad, our Africa segment now comprises our operation in Tanzania, representing 6.0% of underlying revenue2 and 4.8% of underlying EBITDA2. During 2019, we made significant progress toward preparing our Tanzanian business for an IPO of 25% of its shares on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, as mandated by the Tanzanian authorities. Following receipt of the necessary government approvals, we successfully combined our three operating subsidiaries into a single operating entity, and we secured long-term debt to support future growth. Finally, we have filed a prospectus and await approval by the local authority to complete the IPO. Africa organic service revenue2 declined 2.9% (2018: 5.8% growth) during 2019, partly attributable to lower interconnection rates, which resulted in a reduction in our ARPU. Our EBITDA2 decreased 19.9% (2018: growth 7.7%).mainly due to a regulatory fine.
Africa ($m) 98% Mobile –1% $372m Zantel Service revenue Organic growth –2.9% $382 Revenue by country Service Revenue EBITDA Organic growth –19.9% 2% –3% B2B $122 Tanzania $9m
The comparative 2018 financial information in this report has been adjusted for the classification of our operations in Chad as discontinued operations. We disposed of our operations in Chad on June 26, 2019.
1 Includes HFC, DTH, Copper and other technologies. 2 Non-IFRS measure. Please refer to the non-IFRS disclosures in this annual report for a description and for a reconciliation of non-IFRS measures.
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Supporting Our People BLENDING ACQUIRED Our 22,000-plus full-time employees and 30,000 contractors embody OPERATIONS INTO our “Sangre Tigo”; they are the lifeblood essential to our culture, busi- TIGO WITH OPENNESS ness and success. As one of the largest companies in Latin America, AND RESPECT we embrace our role in fueling region-wide economic development and individual prosperity through the career opportunities we create. The integration of almost 3,000 new Therefore, we strive to be the employer of choice across all our mar- employees from Cable Onda and kets by building a culture inside of Tigo where passionate, committed Telefonica in 2019 came with both individuals are empowered to drive positive change and where they opportunities and inherent risks and are encouraged to succeed. challenges. To ensure the mergers succeeded, we formed an intentional This work was particularly critical over the past year. Millicom’s 2018 strategy that included the following acquisition of Cable Onda in Panama and 2019 acquisition of steps: Telefonica’s operating subsidiaries in Panama and Nicaragua spurred » Launched a new Business Integration our rapid market expansion and added almost 3,000 experienced and Office, comprising people of various valued employees to our team. nationalities from the new entities and Tigo, that worked with HR and other key departments to create a values-driven process based on transparency, balanced representation, equity and fluid communication “I can’t imagine working in any other place. » Took the time to get to know the countries and the new employees and to I’ve had opportunities to work in seven learn from each other through interviews and meetings countries with people who believed in me and » Hired external advisors Spencer Stuart challenge me to grow professionally.” and Boston Consulting Group to help us evaluate the skills of managers and executives from Telefonica alongside Carolina Bernal those of current Tigo employees with Chief Financial Officer, Tigo Une Colombia potential to take on leadership roles in Carolina joined our company 26 years ago, mailing invoices to customers our merged operations in Paraguay while she was still in high school. » Created a steering committee that reported to our CEO and was charged with ensuring we built leadership teams with the right levels of cultural diversity, “ local market knowledge and understanding of our core business objectives Ultimately, we believe this thoughtful process enabled us to create teams with an optimal blend of strengths coming from both sides and to retain a high percentage of key executives from the former Telefonica operations.
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Our HR Strategic Pillars We are proud to have been recognized in recent years as one of the best companies to work for in Latin America. To strengthen the foundations of our company and continue cultivating a great place to work, our HR organization implemented a four-dimensional strategy in 2019: » Grow our talent across Millicom and cultivate a diverse pipeline of future leaders within the company » Evolve our culture to be even more inclusive and strengthen our lines of engagement with all our employees » Optimize our organization as it grows, which includes smoothing the integration of people from acquired companies and aligning all our resources with Millicom’s strategic priorities » Build operational excellence by streamlining our HR processes and giving employees more convenient, digitized access to services and benefits These four priorities guide our responsive approach to creating exceptional experiences for our invaluable people and advancing the company’s purpose.
Grow Evolve Optimize Operational Talent Culture Organization Excellence
“We are one of the most recognized brands in Latam, and one of the largest taxpayers in most of the countries we serve. Being such an important force in these developing markets carries an incredible responsibility that we take seriously. Our Employee Value Proposition provides amazing opportunities for our people to transform their lives and ultimately their communities.”
Susy Bobenrieth Chief Human Resources Officer, EVP “
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Pathways to Leadership SHAPING and Career Growth TOMORROW’S LEADERS We recognize that inspired employees produce excellent results. As we build Millicom’s teams in our ever-evolving markets, we must create meaningful incentives that attract, WHERE: All markets retain and develop the best talent to maintain our competitive edge. This includes finding new ways to motivate employees WHAT: Identifying career paths for our and develop their talents—both personally and professionally. top talent to advance their careers at Millicom and continue to produce Our focused approach to leadership and talent development exceptional results for our company. centers on promoting team-oriented, committed employees— HOW: As part of our yearly Organizational those who consistently produce exceptional results in the face Talent Review process in 2019, we of “sink-or-swim” challenges. We are the first-ever employer for launched the Plan 100 strategy to develop many of our people, and some of our most senior leaders the next generation of senior executives started their careers on the front lines of Tigo operations. As and reduce organizational risk from turnover in top leadership positions. We we identify people with high leadership potential, we invest in believe many of our future C-suite leaders creating more opportunities for them to expand their skills and senior managers are already here at through on-the-job experiences in different areas of our Millicom and that our company is more company. (See related highlight story on this page) successful when we have a strong bench of talent with the right skills to ascend our Along with rewarding these employees for their commitment leadership chain. and supporting their long-term career growth, our promote- from-within approach also helps us reduce costly and Through Plan 100, we analyze: » disruptive turnover. During 2019, we retained 88% of our The top-25 leadership roles, from the CEO down employees compared with 84% in 2016. » The 25 people currently in those roles » The top 25 people with high potential to become future leaders » The 25 “springboard” jobs that place “Millicom has given me the employees in an ideal position to develop skill sets that will enable them to move opportunity to live and work in into a top-25 leadership role We are creating new executive team totally different environments development tracks and succession plans than I was used to. That allowed that bring timely opportunities for highly successful general managers and regional me to grow, to strengthen my leaders to work in new environments with greater responsibilities. Plan 100 also resilience and to become a supports our efforts to identify possible talent gaps across the organization and to better person.” develop a deeper pool of individuals within Millicom to fill those roles. Pablo Guardia General Manager, Tigo Bolivia,
Who started as a sales supervisor in 2002 and helped manage several of our African operations early in his career. “
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Bringing “Sangre Tigo” to Life At Tigo, we are proud that our work has purpose. We transform lives and communities by increasing access to digital highways for millions of individuals and hundreds of thousands of businesses. Our employees are at the heart of this transformation. They are the passion and fuel that serve our purpose and the essence of what we call Sangre Tigo. Sangre Tigo is the DNA of our company culture. It is our identity today and our continued aspiration for the future. A 2018 survey involving more than 11,000 employees within the Tigo leadership team and across all our markets provided the foundation of our Sangre Tigo cultural framework. In 2019, we solidified this framework by clearly articulating Tigo’s four pulses, which encompass the key values, practices, behaviors and beliefs that we all share. To bring Sangre Tigo to life, in 2019 we initiated a series of dynamic and interactive workshops designed to provide employees with clarity on our workplace culture and values. We expect to have rolled out these workshops to all our operations by the end of 2020.
Sangre Tigo Cultural Framework
PULSES
We make it We give 1,000% We are TIGO runs happen the for our ONE TIGO in our veins right way customers
BEHAVIORS
We have one purpose We are proud of We lead by example Our customers are and we make an impact our company and and we do what at the center of our history we preach everything we do We are inclusive and united We are innovators We never compromise We are direct, our integrity honest and open Together we win We are fast and we go the extra mile We are transparent We always do it right, We value our and accountable from the first time differences We are passionate We find solutions We make decisions We manage Tigo We care for our and deliver results based on data insights assets as if they communities were our own We see challenges We think, act and as opportunities live digital
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What does Sangre Tigo mean to our ambassadors? “Sangre Tigo is something magical and incomparable, it 11,000+ represents the passion which Employees trained in our we work in day-to-day and Sangre Tigo cultural framework through December 2019 the satisfaction that comes from working with different people who converge on a single feeling. It is a challenge for me to have the 170 Sangre Tigo employee responsibility to strengthen ambassadors this passion in all Tigo employees, I feel very motivated to achieve it.” Mayra Rodríguez B2B Productivity Head, Honduras The Value of Volunteerism Caring for the communities we serve is a value embedded in our Sangre “ Tigo culture and our company’s very purpose. We deepened our commitment to this value in 2019 by instituting a policy to provide up to 2 days of paid time annually for all our “For me, Sangre Tigo is full-time employees to volunteer on ethics; it’s passion for the behalf of local organizations. Many of our people choose to give things I do, and the joy of back to communities through our knowing that we improve Responsible Leadership in Action programs. For example, this year, lives on a daily basis. more than 4,400 employee volunteers helped entrepreneurial women, To be an example and teachers, and children of all ages to adopt digital technology in ways that solution for my customers transform their lives and elevate their communities. Working directly with and colleagues, and be able communities not only demonstrates to replicate the Sangre Tigo how we live our Sangre Tigo values, it also brings deeper meaning and lifestyle”. purpose to our employees’ day to day work and inspires them to do their Leslie Rosales very best. Learn more in the Fulfilling Sales supervisor HFC, Costa Rica Our Corporate Responsibility section on pages 34-49. “
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Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Workplace Our newly articulated Sangre Tigo culture framework This process confirmed that our company is rich in encompasses our foundational commitment to ethnic diversity—with 38 nationalities represented respect all people at Millicom. The value of diversity among the 200+ employees in our Miami regional and inclusion to our business reaches far beyond a office alone. We also uncovered areas of opportunities simple belief in doing what’s right. We believe that an to improve our work environment related to gender inclusive workplace culture attracts talented equity, sexual orientation and age. We emerged with a professionals and empowers them to innovate and strong conviction that we must do even more to contribute their perspectives and experiences in a ensure all employees feel included and valued at supportive environment that values people’s Millicom. Our next step on this journey is to form a D&I differences. In turn, our business, products and Council with broad representation across our cultural services benefit from being truly reflective of diverse spectrum to help Millicom’s senior leaders set the customer and community interests. priorities of our new D&I strategy. We will focus on In 2019, we launched a two-year initiative to define leadership development and opportunities for all and the essential components of diversity and inclusion ensuring that all employees feel their voices are being (D&I) in Sangre Tigo culture and establish a new D&I heard. strategy. Our HR leads, in conjunction with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), gathered insights from Millicom employees company-wide to understand their present experiences of D&I in the workplace.
We are one Tigo. We are inclusive and united, we value our differences, we have one purpose and we make an impact.
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Transforming Our HR Processes As we continue moving into new markets, we also need to support a larger and more dispersed employee base. This challenge has led us to review Millicom’s HR systems with the goal of enhancing our process transformation and ensuring that our practices comply with specific areas of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other financial accounting and reporting requirements of the NASDAQ Stock Market in the U.S.. We engaged Deloitte Consulting in 2019 to help identify opportunities for greater efficiency, consistency and accuracy in our current systems and practices. When finalized, this assessment will guide our development of a company-wide operating model that can support one global HR information system. It will provide self-service access to employees as well as simplify, automate and standardize HR processes across all operations and countries. We plan to implement this new environment in 2020.
Promoting Health, Safety and Wellness Many of our employees live and work in emerging markets where security issues— including civil unrest, armed and organized criminal activity, and terrorism—may compromise personal safety. We seek to minimize such threats and maintain a safe workplace environment by enacting a wide range of controls and promoting actions that help keep our people out of harms way. Millicom has managed the health, safety, and well-being of employees based on international (OHSAS) standards and industry best practices, with advice and support from local authorities, and is currently transitioning to ISO 45001. Our central security and safety team empowers and trains operational teams, and every market has a professionally trained and certified physical security and health and safety officer. All third-party vendors and partners must abide by our security and safety standards. For the fourth straight year, we improved our supplier due-diligence and vetting processes and conducted comprehensive compliance audits for those suppliers considered to be at greatest risk of significant health, safety, and security issues. The systems implemented also provided the operations the relevant frameworks to identify improvements to further reduce the risk of injury, illness and fatal incidents. In 2019, most operations in Latam and Africa transitioned to and received certification for the new ISO Health and Safety 45001 standard. We expect to have all operations certified by the end of Q2 2020.
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Our Business Strategy and Performance We continued generating robust financial returns and socioeconomic benefits in our markets in 2019 by staying relentlessly focused on our business strategy, which is designed to propel long-term, stable growth in six interconnected areas.
Millicom CEO Mauricio Ramos chats with Panamanian football star Jaime Penedo via a real-time holographic call, the first ever in Latin America, using 5G technology powered by Ericsson.
Monetize Mobile Data Our 2019 Telefónica acquisitions added new mobile markets in Panama and Nicaragua. Through our expanded 4G/LTE network—which now covers 69% of people in our Latam markets—we are connecting 15 million 4G mobile customers to content and experiences from providers such as Amazon Prime (see highlight story on page 26) as well as through our own TigoONEtv and Tigo Sports content services. Our network and datacenter investments in 2019 have also set the foundation for us to become the leading 5G operator in Latam as the standard evolves and market demand grows in the coming years. We are piloting 5G capability in Panama, Colombia and other countries with telecom partners such as Ericsson. As we accelerate our transition from a prepaid to a postpaid subscription model, these new products and services help stimulate customers’ data usage and bring in additional revenue.
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Build Cable TRANSFORMING Having completed the acquisition of Cable Onda at the end of 2018, PUBLIC HEALTHCARE Tigo’s fixed network now passes more than 11.8 millions of homes in ACCESS IN PANAMA Latam. Our expanded hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network meets growing demand for high-speed data from business and consumer subscribers. WHERE: Panama With a cable footprint that now extends uninterrupted from WHAT: Working with the Caja Del Seguro Guatemala to Colombia, we can drive even greater operational and Social (Social Security) agency in Panama logistical efficiency in our network. Our larger scale and broadened to create a fully digitized medical radiology platform that simplifies and speeds coverage enable us to deliver improved service and more content information sharing with medical options for customers while keeping our prices competitive. Our cable practitioners. Cable Onda launched the and other fixed services business generates aproximately 40% of project in 2014 and Tigo continues to Tigo’s Latam revenue. implement it. HOW: Physicians and other practitioners can access digitized x-rays and medical records on mobile devices while attending Prepare for Convergence to patients who might otherwise have to With integrated fixed and mobile networks in all nine of our Latam travel further from their homes to be seen at a larger medical facility. Tigo manages markets, we have tremendous room to grow our portfolio of converged the platform and provides maintenance services that customers can seamlessly access as they move between services for all the biomedical and work, home and leisure. In 2019 we created new agreements with technological components of the initiative. partners such as Amazon Web Services that enable us to provide a RESULTS: hybrid public/private cloud infrastructure with enhanced content and » 5.1 million patients observed since 2014 data access as well as improved security for businesses and public- » Replacement of analog equipment with sector organizations. 185 digital radiology units » More than 90 new remote digital stations across the country help radiologists serve patients more efficiently » 700 doctors and technicians trained on the new platform » Reduced time patients had to wait for laboratory results from 45-60 days to seven days or less » Images and diagnostic notes integrated into the patient’s digital file, reducing errors and costs associated with transferring and storing medical records
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Accelerate B2B Our high-speed fixed and mobile networks now pass approximately seven out of ten businesses in our Latam markets. In 2019, we focused on growing B2B adoption of our secure and reliable network capabilities. In the process, we increased our Net Promoter Score (NPS) among business customers by 9.6 pts from January to December 2019. More companies are choosing the communications, datacenter, cloud and business continuity services that Tigo Business provides. Our fiber ring, which connects the 13 countries from United States to Argentina and Chile, enables us to deliver high availability, consistent support and greater resilience for multinational companies— leading to greater satisfaction for their customers. Our offerings to small and midsized businesses (SMBs) also grew in 2019. Building upon the success of our first-ever SMB convergent offer that Tigo Business rolled out in Bolivia in 2018, we extended these capabilities to SMBs in Honduras in 2019. For a fixed monthly price, customers can purchase a service package with internet, HFC, mobile and cloud solutions tailored to their individual needs.
4G NETWORKING IMPROVES COLLABORATION AT BANCOLOMBIA
WHERE: Throughout Latam WHAT: An entire virtualized network that integrates Bancolombia’s telecommunications, business processes, data and content across 10 countries. HOW: Tigo has served Bancolombia, one of the largest financial institutions in Latam, since 2014 when we merged with broadband and telephony provider UNE. In 2019, we implemented a set of networking solutions that enables Bancolombia’s 46,500 employees from Colombia to Jacksonville, Florida, to communicate and share information more flexibly. Our platform applies software-defined wide-area-network (SD-WAN) technology along with 4G mobile networking capabilities to enhance and secure the bank’s telecommunications. The results include: » Connectivity for 695 Bancolombia branches and six administrative offices » Integration of instant messaging, audio, video, and web communications among bank employees » Faster and more efficient customer service » Added voice capabilities at bank ATMs
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HIGH-PERFORMANCE, ENERGY-EFFICIENT LATAM DATACENTERS
As part of our strategic plans for delivering faster, more reliable and more secure services, we have invested more than $68 million in improving our datacenter infrastructure to world-class standards throughout Latam. These new datacenters deliver improved uptime for the Millicom cloud environment which, in turn, provides better service to our customers. 2019 Highlights: » Completed five new datacenters as of December 2019 » Closed two older facilities in Honduras and one in Colombia, with plans to close four more in Latam in 2020 » Incorporated three Tier III-certified datacenters in Panama that were part of the Cable Onda acquisition completed in 20% early 2019 Additional reduction in energy » Earned a CEEDA Level Silver Energy use through replacement of Efficiency certification from Datacenter legacy technology in our Dynamics for our new Paraguay datacenters and network datacenter and began the certification process for four others Along with the benefits they create for our business-to-business (B2B) customers, these new and upgraded datacenters, combined with the decomissioning of older facilities, will reduce Millicom’s energy consumption, GHG emissions and operational costs—signifying our commitment to adopt business practices that minimize our environmental impact. “We are proud to be a The new datacenters are 40% more leading operator investing in efficient than traditional sites due to the use of higher-efficiency equipment and the technology infrastructure in implementation of real-time energy management software, which is running at Latin America for the long our datacenters in Paraguay and Bolivia, and will soon be rolled out in Colombia, term. We believe this strategy Guatemala, Panama and Honduras. and investment will make us a premier provider of B2B solutions in all of the markets where we operate.”
Xavier Rocoplan Chief Technology Officer “
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Go Digital We are evolving our digital tools and operational model to be more efficient for our internal teams. We’re also creating simpler and more satisfying digital avenues for our customers to interact with us. Through our e-care support platform, Tigo customers can now resolve 80% of the most common service and account issues—including plan upgrades, username/password resets and billing questions—on their own. In 2019, we also started to connect the Tigo ecosystem with digital platforms such as WhatsApp and Google Mobile Android, which allow even more users of our prepaid mobile services to check their balance and recharge their account without having to install the Tigo app. In addition, subscribers in every country can now pay their bills online using Tigo Money, our mobile wallet app. They can also renew Tigo services from home through their set-top box and set up automatic payments using a variety of methods. By digitizing our activation process and requiring fewer manual steps, we can bring services into customers’ homes more quickly and efficiently.
AMAZON PRIME AND THE “CONTENT SUPERMARKET”
WHERE: All Latam markets “We are bringing customers the seamless WHAT: Bring an unprecedented wealth of and always-connected experience they digital content to our audiences through partnerships with Amazon Prime and expect, with access to premium content from Google Android around the world through Amazon Prime. HOW: Tigo subscribers can now stream videos, music and other offerings from Together with our fast-growing TigoONEtv Amazon Prime through their set-top boxes and on mobile devices. Through another and Tigo Sports offerings, we’re creating a new partnership with Google Android, we added Android TV to the TigoONEtv virtual ‘content supermarket’ that provides service. more options and flexibility than ever.” These groundbreaking partnerships give Latam residents access to globally Luciano Marino sought-after content for the first time— Vice President of B2C Initiatives providing greater customer choice and bringing additional returns to Tigo on our investments in 4G and cable. “
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Provide the Best Customer Experience Beyond offering more digital self-service tools for customers, we are working to create an even more customer-centric culture throughout Millicom. Our 2019 efforts included gleaning more actionable details about customer satisfaction and needs through our various touchpoints—online, by phone and in person. We’re using these insights to create more effective support behind our products and services—which contributed to a 9 points rise in Millicom’s overall NPS this year. As a result of better understanding our customers, and to garner even more granular knowledge about their needs and experiences, in 2019 we introduced nine new customer service interaction evaluations to our experience model and improved the way we interact with our customers in existing channels.
A CLEARER VIEW OF HOW OUR NETWORKS PERFORM
WHERE: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay WHAT: Enhancing how we measure network performance and use that information to continuously improve our customers’ experiences. HOW: We use Tutela’s crowdsourced mobile network quality data—collected from more than 10 million mobile devices in the region—to benchmark our signal strength and quality, device usage and download speed patterns. This helps us better understand how users are experiencing our fixed and mobile networks, troubleshoot network performance issues and identify key areas for investment to improve our quality of service.
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Risk Landscape As an international mobile and cable services company operating in emerging markets, predominantly in Latin America, managing risk plays a significant role in our decision-making. The developing, and sometimes volatile nature of the markets and economies in which we operate, exposes us to an inherently higher level, and potentially different set of risks than similar companies operating in larger, more established and mature economies. In addition to risks associated with our geographical footprint, rapid change in mobile telephony and cable technology can have a significant impact on the demand for our services, and our ability to generate sufficient returns on the investments we make.
Risk Appetite As a consequence of these factors, we have a higher risk appetite than many of our peers in the telecommunications and cable industry, and a wider risk profile than many international businesses. We accept the risks inherent in our businesses and markets to the extent that opportunities for sufficient returns exist, and on our ability to adopt appropriate systems and controls to manage those risks.
Risk Management Our consideration of risk plays a critical part in reducing uncertainty. This supports decision making in the allocation of capital and resources, which increases the likelihood of successfully formulating and executing on the right strategy. We carefully align our approach to balancing risk with reward to protect our stakeholders and deliver sustainable value. We approach risk management consistently across the entire business, identifying and managing risks strategically at the Board and Senior Management levels and through in-depth processes and at transaction level by key business unit leaders and staff in our operating countries. We embed risk management processes in our operations both geographically (by country) and functionally (by business area), developing and implementing action plans that seek to balance risks with returns, within pre-determined risk appetite levels. Key risks are determined based on likelihood or occurrence and impact to the business, based on a number of financial and non-financial criteria. These criteria include the potential operational, financial, reputational and human impact of the risk. Each risk is owned by an individual risk owner at the relevant decision-making level. For example, key risks of the Group are owned by members of the executive management team, whereas key risks of each country are owned by the leadership team of each country. Oversight of the Group’s key risks is provided by the Board and its Committees, while oversight of key risks in the countries is provided by the executive management team and the central functions.
MILLICOM’S RISKS ARE CLASSIFIED INTO SIX BROAD CATEGORIES:
Strategic Financial Operational Political and Governance, People and Regulatory Compliance and Culture Reputation (conduct)
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Evolution of risk in 2019 Key events in 2019 have had a significant impact on the risk profile of the Group – in particular, inorganic strategy, financial structure, and growth. However, many of these changes are due to the successful execution of Millicom’s operational strategy and investor proposition plan. The company started the year with the re-listing of its shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market in the U.S. Many activities were undertaken in 2018 to ensure that governance structures are fully compliant with the relevant rules and regulations. In 2019 significant focus was placed on improvements in the control environment (including fulfillment of requirements under the Sarbanes Oxley Act). In Q1 Millicom announced the agreement to acquire mobile businesses in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, and the sale of its business in Chad. The portfolio of businesses has therefore continued its shift toward Latin America and in particular increased its exposure to Central America. The ability to successfully merge and integrate the acquired businesses is a key opportunity and challenge, which will continue in 2020. Political and economic stability are key determining factors in the ability of our businesses to grow and continue to be successful. While the underlying currencies in which we generate revenue remained relatively stable in 2019, political and civil unrest in some of the Central American countries continued to impact some of our businesses. In addition, toward the end of the year, civil unrest following elections in Bolivia caused instability in the country and temporary disruption to our business. International sanctions and restrictions placed on certain suppliers of devices and equipment were a key focus of risk management activities during the year. A full assessment of the possible outcomes and implications for our business was performed, with contingency plans formulated. This risk will continue to be monitored closely in 2020 as global discussions on national security and communications continue. Information and network access security, including protection of customer data and cyber security in general, continue to increase in importance for all consumer-based businesses. We continued to invest in this area (detailed on pages 97 and 98 in the Governance section) in 2019. Our senior leadership team remained largely unchanged during 2019, a key enabler in executing on our strategy and driving both short-term and longer-term initiatives, including those on leadership, culture and succession planning. While we manage and monitor many more risks within the Millicom risk universe, we have highlighted on the following pages the areas of risk that were a key focus in 2019.
“Our Governance structure and Business Ethics and Compliance programs were key to navigating some of the risks inherent to operating in emerging markets. Doing business in the right way is a fundamental driver embodied in our new “Sangre Tigo” framework and sets the tone from the top.”
José Antonio Ríos García Chairman of the Board of Directors “
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Risk Mitigation and actions Evolution in 2019 Board Perspective (likelihood and impact of the risk materializing)
1. Strategy and strategic direction: Our strategy has been developed Millicom’s growth profile in recent years is based on our vision of building digital a strong indicator that the strategy Uncertainty in the formulation and highways that connect people in our deployed since 2016 is working. In 2019 governance of an appropriate and target markets. We have a relentless the company continued to meet key executable strategy and strategic focus on the six key pillars of our operational targets, including in building direction that supports the vision of the strategy, and monitor execution of the cable, monetizing data, and positioning company. Inadequate processes for strategy with relevant financial and itself with fixed and mobile presence in all gathering and analyzing information in operational KPIs as well as external its LATAM markets.
formulation of the strategy. Likelihood factors such as macro, political and key Relisting on NASDAQ in the U.S. has demographics in our markets. provided an easier path for investment in
Our Board oversees and approves our Impact Millicom’s growth story. strategy and any refinements that may be required. Our strategy is set out on pages 22-27.
2. Portfolio management and We carefully consider opportunities to Building digital highways in growth capital allocation: acquire, merge, or divest businesses economies in Latin America is a key based on market dynamics, portfolio strategic focus. Acquisition or retention of businesses balance, and opportunities for long-term Divestiture of the Chad business and poorly aligned to strategy, overpriced, value creation. and /or generate lower than required acquisition of mobile businesses in Central return on investment. Investment and We are focused on LATAM where we see America in 2019 fit perfectly with these the best opportunities for future growth longer-term goals of the Company.
capital management that enable the Likelihood company to meet its strategic and value creation. In 2018 and 2019 objectives within its financial and we reallocated capital from Africa, and operational capabilities. significantly increased our presence and position in Central America through the Impact purchase of Cable Onda in Panama and the Telefonica mobile businesses.
3. Macro-economic conditions: We actively manage macro-economic While the countries in which Millicom risks in a number of ways. operates in Latam may, from time to time, Volatility or uncertainty in macro- We commission studies on economic experience short-term macro-economic economic conditions (e.g. but not volatility, average GDP growth is forecast limited to; currency, inflation, and development and prospects in our countries, we consider currency to be in the range of 2%-4% per annum remittances) and underlying drivers through to 2028. impacting our markets and the volatility in our budgeting, forecasting,
disposable income of consumers, and tax and treasury management Likelihood Currency fluctuations are a key risk the currencies in which we generate and processes, and we raise debt in local inherent to Millicom’s business. The Board remit cash flows. currency where it is available.. oversees management’s processes and See page 10 for a review of the Impact controls governing financial and financial performance in 2019. macro-economic risk against pre- determined levels of risk appetite.
4. Political, civil and regulatory We closelty monitor politial Political and regulatory risks for Millicom’s environments: developments in the countries where businesses remain relatively high in many we operate and review potential of our countries, particular those seeking Instability, unrest, or lack of changes in regulations on an ongoing to increase income from the predictability in regulation or rule of law basis. telecommunications industry. in the countries in which we conduct business. Uncertainty in regulatory and A number of countries in our footprint In 2019, the imposition of regulatory fines tax rulings, including indirect taxation held planned government elections and lack of transparency in certain and regulatory pressure through tariffs, during 2019. The election result and countries signaled a continued trend of taxes and service penalties. ensuing civil unrest in Bolivia had a increasing risk in this area. short-term negative impact on our Likelihood The Board oversees Millicom’s interaction ability to provide services to our with key governmental and regulatory customers. agencies, and promotes transparency and Impact We implement efficiency programs in predictability in regulation. The Board all aspects of our business to offset the sponsors doining business in the right impact of newly introduced or way. expected changes in taxes and regulations.
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Risk Mitigation and actions Evolution in 2019 Board Perspective (likelihood and impact of the risk materializing)
5. Competition and customer With a focus on home penetration, and In a world where demand for content, experience: 4G subscriptions, Millicom also has access to information and communication partnerships with key content and services is increasingly critical in Market structure, market position, service providers such as Netflix and enhancing and improving lives, positive actions taken by competitors, and Amazon, as well as broadcast rights customer experience is a vital attribute. customer experience have a significant including football in many of our ‘Best Customer Experience’ is one of the impact on attracting and retaining markets. customers. Lack of attention to market key pillars of Millicom’s strategy, and a key and customer needs or poor customer In recent years we have implemented differentiator in customer choice of experience negatively impact the processes and tools to continuously operator. track customer satisfaction across all
subscriber base, and operator Likelihood Millicom’s comprehensive customer reputation. our markets and services, and use this satisfaction program in place facilitates a data to refine and enhance our continuous cycle of improvement across Competition for mobile and home customers’ experiences. Impact all facets of customer experience in all subscribers continues to increase, while See page 27 for information on how operating markets. prepaid customers remain a large and we have invested in processes to important contributor to revenue. improve customer experience and gain Quality of service, innovation and insights. converged offerings as key differentiating factors.
6. Licenses and spectrum: We have a carefully formulated The landscape related to spectrum and spectrum and license strategy and licenses to operate is constantly changing, The availability of licenses and management plan for each of our particularly in our markets as governments spectrum is limited, closely regulated, markets. seek higher financial and consumer and increasingly expensive. We actively monitor and engage with benefits from spectrum auctions, Inability to obtain the required quantity government and regulatory bodies on competition for lower spectrum bands, or band of spectrum from regulators or spectrum and license related matters. and industry consolidation. third parties at a price we deem to be We often negotiate renewals/retention Millicom actively engages with regulators commercially acceptable, could have in the initial allocation contracts and and governments, and promotes fair and significant negative consequences for transparent allocation and pricing of
we carefully consider opportunities to Likelihood the operation of our businesses. acquire new spectrum based on spectrum and licenses. spectrum quality, fit with network needs, and customer demand. Impact During 2019, we successfully obtained and renewed the spectrum we need to continue to operate our businesses, including acquiring new spectrum in Colombia and El Salvador.
7. Financial structure and capacity We carefully manage our sources and Millicom’s financial structure is both a key uses of capital to enable us to meet facilitator and inhibitor of its ability to Millicom may be at a disadvantage our operating, investing and financing grow its business and create value. compared to competitors in access and needs. cost of capital. Risk that financial The Board closely monitors balance sheet limitations such as debt covenants, We manage our debt maturity and structure and the sources and uses of debt service requirements and credit monitor opportunities for lowering our funds in the business. Operating and ratings could negatively impact ability cost of debt and increasing our debt equity free cash flow, leverage, and efficiency on an ongoing basis. shareholder remuneration are key areas of to execute the organic and inorganic Likelihood growth strategy. In 2018 and 2019 we successfully focus of the Board in approving annual raised additional finance to acquire the budgets and monitoring results. businesses in Central America, while Impact maintaining comfortable headroom against covenants and maintaining our credit rating.
8. Networks and infrastructure Our network resilience controls and Millicom’s vision of building digital resilience: mitigating activities include ongoing highways that connect people, improving vulnerability assessments, simulation lives and developing our communities, Disruptions to service, or compromised exercises and business continuity relies heavily on the quality and ability to restore services to customers management plans, tested on a availability of its networks and in acceptable time frames, can cause regular basis. infrastructure. loss of revenue, increase expenses, and Likelihood have a negative impact on customer We develop our investment programs Capital allocation in expanding, experience. with consideration of elements modernizing, maintaining and protecting including outage risks, external networks are vital in the successful dependences, and network Impact execution of Millicom’s strategy. redundancy.
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9. Technical transformation and With fixed and mobile businesses in Advancements in technology, and convergence each of our strategic markets, we now increasing demand for more and higher have the necessary building blocks for quality services are trends that have Failure to identify / anticipate drivers of fixed / mobile convergence. defined the telecommunications and technological change together with We now deploy more than $1bn each media industries. These trends are adaptability and resource to implement expected to continue and accelerate. change. year in expanding, developing and modernizing our networks and Millicom’s strategy seeks to balance its
Threat of cross-industry convergence infrastructure to enable customer Likelihood short-term operating and financial goals and further commoditization of growth and enhance customer with key technological and existing products and services. Strategic experience. transformational investments that will Impact risk of ‘betting on the wrong To learn more about our business ensure the business remains strong and technology’ or ‘missing the technology strategy and goals to prepare for prepared for the medium and long term. of the future’. convergence see pages 22-27
10. Cyber security and data We have established a Global Cyber security attacks have emerged as a protection: Information Security Office and Global significant threat to the successful Security Operations Center to centrally operation of any organization, particular Intrusion into systems or networks and manage and coordinate risk mitigation those that rely on information systems to inappropriate access to sensitive data related to cyber security and data collect, process, and manage date. could have significant operational, protection. regulatory, legal and reputational Innovation, technological advancements implications. We have implemented processes to and an ever increasingly regulatory regularly assess threats and environment heighten risks in this area. Failure to implement systems and vulnerabilities to security breaches, and Millicom has responded by dedicating
processes to prevent, detect and training programs in place to raise Likelihood resources and allocating capital to respond to information security threats, awareness and control consciousness strengthen its cyber control environment. and properly manage data requests of employees. Impact (e.g. from governments and regulatory Learn more on page 98 about the authorities). initiatives we implemented in 2019 to improve protection of critical systems, and ensure compliance with relevant data protection rules.
11. People, workplace and We manage the health, safety, and It is our people that bring our vision to life. well-being: well-being of staff based on Everyday thousands of Millicom international standards, industry best employees and contractors work towards Our geographical footprint sometimes practice, and advice and support from building the digital highways and exposes our employees and contractors local authorities. providing the services that benefit our to situations which may subject them customers and their communities. to physical, psychological or emotional To learn more about our approach to
harm. employee health, safety, and security Likelihood We recognize the importance of ensuring see page 21. that Millicom is a place where our people can feel safe, protected and supported in Impact ways that enable them to do well, and enhance their lives and the loves of those around them.
12. Conduct: Through clear policies, training and Doing business in the right way is a monitoring activities, we ensure that all fundamental driver embodied in the tone Actions and behaviors of our our staff remain aware of the risks to from the top through the organization. employees, business partners and other them as individuals and to the stakeholders impact the Company’s The Board’s Compliance and Business company and know how to act if faced Ethics Committee maintains oversight of reputation, compliance with rules and with risk in these areas. regulations and may impact our ability Millicom’s Compliance program and Likelihood to operate our businesses. See Governance Section of this report initiatives that strengthen controls and for more information on our enhance the culture of compliance in its anti-money laundering, anti-corruption business and with its business partners. and other business ethics action items Impact in 2019.
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Compliance and Business Ethics Corruption in government and the private sector can raise potent risks for our business that we must counter decisively and transparently in order to protect our reputation, maintain stakeholders trust and sustain our long-term growth. Our ability to operate in the heavily regulated telecommunications industry and maintain a competitive advantage also hinges on diligently adhering to requirements that often vary considerably between different markets. At Millicom, we maintain a zero tolerance for any form of corruption. Our Ethics and Compliance Group meets these challenges by setting 328 the highest standards of integrity, backed by clear guidance and Cases reported on support for our employees in upholding our expectations. Along with Millicom Ethics Line our Board and Executive Team, the group provides front-line protection against legal, financial, regulatory and reputational missteps that could interrupt our operations and jeopardize our customer relationships. As Millicom completed the acquisitions of Cable Onda in Panama and Telefónica’s Central American operations in 2019, much of our 97% attention went into training nearly 3,000 new employees from those Employees trained in our companies on our Code of Ethics and our compliance policies. We conflict of interest policy presented a series of face-to-face training sessions at the former Cable Onda and Telefónica operations to ensure that senior leaders and individuals whose roles carry a higher level of compliance or ethical risk fully understood our ethics policies and procedures. Most other employees completed online training as a mandatory part of their overall onboarding experience. One of our focal points for all Millicom employees who interact with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders is how to recognize and avoid potential conflicts of interest. We also want to ensure that our people feel empowered and safe to raise any ethical concerns. As a result, 97% of our employees have now been trained in our conflict of interest policy. In 2019, we rolled out country-specific extensions of our anonymous whistleblower hotline and EthicsPoint reporting database for the people in our newly acquired operations. In addition, we hired compliance officers in Panama and Nicaragua. We have seen a steady increase in the reporting of ethics cases in 2019. As we continue to onboard, integrate and train employees from new operations in 2020, we expect this trend will continue. Our group also worked closely with Millicom HR and Corporate Responsibility leaders to help shape the new Sangre Tigo cultural framework (see related story on pages 18-19.) and to establish new goals for our Ethics program. We will use this expression of our corporate attitudes and behaviors—among them, “We make it happen the right way” and “Integrity starts with you”—as one of the touchpoints in our ethics and compliance training to help us achieve our goals.
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Fulfilling Our Corporate Responsibility
Millicom’s purpose is at the core of our corporate responsibility (CR) actions, and always has been. We channel the power of technology delivered through our digital highways into programs that create life-changing opportunities for people and transformative economic, social and educational benefits for communities. We also work with teams across the company to reflect CR values such as environmental stewardship, integrity, inclusivity and respect for human rights in every facet of our business.
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The unrivaled power of mobile technology to connect and improve lives and bring businesses in emerging markets into the global economy cannot be understated. As our business grows through the adoption of digital technologies, so does our ability to fuel even greater opportunities and bring socio-economic progress to the countries where we operate. We do not divorce technology and innovation from human rights, ethics or sustainable development. They reinforce each other. As our markets prosper, our business prospers. “Millicom is leading by 2019 was a pivotal year for our CR efforts on many levels. We put a highly cohesive strategy and framework into action with more specific example by integrating child goals, stronger regional impact and greater reach through rights in its CR framework… partnerships. We are working together to Embedded Responsibility make digital spaces for 2019 is the first year that we managed and reported against our children and young people a refreshed CR Framework and 5-Year Plan. The framework builds on our longstanding commitment to corporate responsibility and the safe place to learn, to play, fulfillment of our purpose. But it is more than just a document— and to connect with other everything we do as an organization related to corporate responsibility now flows from this comprehensive and ambitious plan. Through children and young people.” collaboration between CR, B2C, B2B, technical, procurement, facilities, environmental, human resources and other teams globally and at the Charlotte Petri Gornitzka country level, we brought the framework to life by co-creating specific Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund goals and metrics so that responsible practices are fully integrated into our business and drive our community and industry leadership. “ Regional Impact As part of our integration efforts, we significantly scaled our activities and impact by building on the insights gained from experience and successful pilots to address key socio-economic challenges facing women, children and communities. We leveraged the lessons learned through a multi-year process to replicate and adapt country-level programs to larger regions, advancing each facet of our CR Framework. Our more cohesive and structured approach has already created a greater positive impact in communities—helping people move out of poverty and into the mainstream economy, enhancing quality of life through improved access to education, financial services, and employment. (See stories on pages 43 to 48).
Powerful Partnerships We know we can achieve greater impact and transform more lives when we partner with others, so in 2019 we ramped up our work with regional and local partners like UNICEF and the Crecer Foundation to channel our products, services, financial resources and employees’ talents where they are most effective in elevating communities. Whether it’s women entrepreneurs earning more income, or children learning how to code and responsibly use the internet, stories in following pages provide examples of how, working together with partners, we can move the needle on priority issues for the countries we serve and bring positive benefits to our business as well.
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Our CR Framework Anchored by Millicom’s core purpose, our CR Framework spans five CR Fundamentals within our business and three Responsible Leadership in Action pillars to benefit children, women and communities. Across each of these areas, we have set a Five-Year Plan with specific goals for measuring our progress. Our progress on the CR Fundamentals and Responsible Leadership in Action pillars is featured in this section as well as under Supporting Our People, pages 15-21; Managing Our Business, page 25; and Compliance and Business Ethics, page 33. We also present detailed statistics about Millicom’s CR performance, including how our work aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in the tables on pages 50-56.
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“Millicom stands out for the way the company’s purpose, corporate responsibility strategy and reporting are closely bound together and focused on the long-term.”
Dunstan Allison-Hope Managing Director, BSR
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SEEDING TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE WITH OUR $211M SUSTAINABILITY BOND
We believe that by investing to advance socio-economic We’ve also earmarked proceeds from the Sustainability progress and environmental stewardship in the Bond for a range of projects focused on expanding emerging markets that we serve, our actions not only digital and financial inclusion, such as: move communities forward but also sustain our own » Broadening Technology Access: Expand our fixed future success. With the launch of Millicom’s and mobile networks that will extend coverage to Sustainability Bond Framework and the issuance of our unconnected and underserved population. inaugural Sustainability Bond in May 2019, we stepped » Empowering Women: Training more than 200,000 up to further align our financing strategy with CR. women in El Salvador, Paraguay and Bolivia to use Our Sustainability Bond of SEK 2 billion (or about mobile and internet technology as a pathway to $211 million) is the first Green and Social Bond issued employment, higher income and greater potential. from Latin America. It supports initiatives geared » Protecting Children: We have delivered training to toward reducing our climate footprint and promoting more than 60,000 students, parents and teachers in greater digital and financial inclusion for the El Salvador, Paraguay and Bolivia on digital literacy unconnected and underserved as well as the thriving and tools, computer and programming skills, robotics middle class and businesses in Latin America. To be and child online protection. eligible for funding through a Sustainability Bond, all » Improving Supplier Performance: Training more projects must comply with either the Social Bond than 170 of our suppliers on corporate responsibility Principles or Green Bond Principles published by the issues including health and safety, compliance, fair International Capital Markets Association. labor, ethics, eco-efficiency and child rights. We allocated the first year of the bond to a range of The Sustainability Bond Framework gives us a potent projects that encompass distinct social and means of attracting capital from investors who share environmental objectives and benefits. Millicom’s interest in seeding environmental and Our projects under the bond include: social progress in Latin America through our business. » DataCenters: We developed an UPTIME Tier III certified facility in Bolivia, designed to operate at PUE 1.6 and with an estimated power reduction of 40% when compared to our previously existing traditional Datacenter in Santa Cruz. (see related story on page 25).
“At Millicom, corporate responsibility lies at the heart of everything we do. Our updated Corporate Responsibility Framework sets the scope for our focus, and we are excited that we are now able to apply it to our financing strategy as well.”
Rachel Samrén Executive VP and Chief External Affairs Officer “ Millicom 2019 Annual Report 37 Who We Are Managing Our Business Fulfilling Our Corporate Responsibility Governance Auditors’ Reports Financial Statements
CR Fundamentals The first element of Millicom’s Corporate Responsibility Framework involves what we believe are the prerequisites for the health of Millicom’s business and the societies where we operate. CR Fundamentals are core to Millicom’s purpose, culture and relationships. They guide our employees on how to conduct business in the right way. Our CR team collaborates with business units across the company to help ensure Millicom is conducting business in ways that maximize our positive impact, manage risk, reduce costs and build lasting trust with key stakeholders. The consolidated approach we launched Responsible in 2019 and accelerated over the past year is generating Leadership in Action strong results across all five areas of our CR Fundamentals.
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